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...Clara Jo had a sheaf of Easter Seals and a lapel pin; for Clara Jo's cause Ike had $5, and for her stuffed dachshund he had an autograph. Pulling open a drawer of his desk, the President looked at the contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven...
...telephone (in one normal day, recently, he received 94 incoming calls, not counting interoffice conversations). At 10:52 a.m., the precise moment when the President's press conference broke up, Leonard Wood Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fastened a gold-colored Ike pin on his lapel and made a prediction. "This," he said earnestly, "is going to 'be one of the hardest campaigns we ever fought. Now that Ike has done what he has done, we're all going to have to come up to it by working harder than we ever did before...
Lausche threw back his head and roared. "You're a fine fellow," he said. Then, still chuckling, he reached into his pocket, and, drawing out a Lausche button, pinned it on his companion's lapel. "Everybody for Lausche." he roared...
Poujade's Deputies, no longer swaggering on the hustings, filed almost meekly into the strange surroundings of the Palais Bourbon. But the Poujadist symbol, an enameled red cock crowing, flared from every lapel. And the Poujadists quickly got involved in the Assembly's first dispute: an attempt to unseat four Poujadists on charges of electoral violations...
...what most viewers wait for is Hitchcock's deadpan, devastating comments on the show's Bristol-Myers commercials. He ordinarily treats them with a disdain that is the equivalent of a fastidious man brushing a particularly repellent caterpillar off his lapel. After one drama, Hitchcock said gloomily: "As you know, someone must always pay the piper. Fortunately, we already have such a person. This philanthropic gentleman wishes to remain anonymous, but perhaps the more discerning of our audience will be able to find a clue to his identity in the following commercial." When the sales message has ended...